Learn Persian with Chayan Conversation, Lesson 65.

Hello and welcome to Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation.

My name is Leila and we're joined today with our dear friend Farid Shafinuri.

Salam Farid.

Salam. Hello.

And we're covering our second poem in our poetry series.

So our first poem, Lesson 61, was Sohrabsepejee's Dargolestana.

And Dargolestana is a modern poem, Sorabsepeji, wrote in the last century.

And today we are going to the past of Iranian poetry, and we are learning Rumi's Ruzoshab.

So first, let's talk about who Rumi was. So a lot of our listeners will probably

recognize the name Rumi. He's actually the most red poet in the world. And so he has the most

sales of books, and he was a 13th century Persian poet, but you have a lot more details about his life.

So can you tell us who Rumi was and what kinds of poems he wrote?

Rumi was a Sufi poet, and he wrote poems in the book of Masnavi and the divan and Shamsatabrisi when he met Shamps, which was a very pivotal figure in his life.

Rumi believed that, and through his poem, he shows that one acquires the knowledge to reach enlightenment or to reach the state of ecstasy or tarab and the path of devotion

and seeking but rumi as a sufi poet brings about the message that not too different from

soharab seperi actually that one becomes the knowledge.

You become what you proclaim to be or proclaim or profess to want to achieve some sort of

purity that is embodied in, for example, the mysticism that comes out of both the Abrahamic religions of Judaism or Islam.

You have Kabbalah, then you have Sufism, and these interpretations of the religion,

people like Rumi, poets, they brought it to life.

And some would argue and say that Rumi is making it relatable because we all fall in love.

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